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The General's Daughter
1999
**
Director: Simon West
Cast: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Leslie Stefanson, Clarence Williams III, James Woods

Two officers in the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command are assigned to investigate the brutal rape and murder of a general's daughter, who was in the service herself. This morally dubious thriller portrays the victim in such a negative light that it becomes almost irrelevant who the culprit is. Simon West's visual style (gun shells flying in slow motion) suits an action films but not a crime drama like this. Based on Nelson DeMille's novel.